Legal Blog

When Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein handed over the reins of the Justice Department’s Russia investigation to a special consel, he gave Robert Mueller the authority to look into “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.” It has become clear that...

As President Trump prepares to declare the opioid epidemic a national crisis, the law enforcement community is racing to contain the spread of fentanyl, which has largely replaced heroin on the streets in opioid-ravaged New England and is increasingly the cause of fatal overdoses nationwide,...

Legionnaires of the 1st Regiment of the French Foreign Legion near Marseille last year. (Claude Paris/Associated Press)
American criminal law generally recognizes the defense of duress: The rules vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but one common formulation is that the defendant is excused from criminal responsibility...

In today’s world, crime penetrates the lives of children from many sources. They witness violence at school, in the neighborhood, or even in the “safety” of their home. Children may also be affected indirectly, when parents fall victims to crime, or when a parent is...

Artis v. District of Columbia, which is set for argument next Wednesday, reminds us that much of the Supreme Court’s work is decidedly unglamorous. The court’s task will be to determine how long a tolling provision in the federal supplemental jurisdiction statute gives litigants to...

Seizures of deadly synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and carfentanil have soared in Minnesota, forcing law enforcement agencies to adopt new procedures for collecting evidence, making drug arrests and testing samples at forensic labs, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. The synthetics are so powerful that,...

Former Philadelphia District Attorney was sentenced to the maximum five years in prison, as U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond called him a “criminal” who “fed his face at the trough” of public money, Philly.com reports. Williams humiliated his employees and dumped his own mother “like...

Police misconduct has cost Milwaukee taxpayers at least $17.5 million in legal settlements since 2015, forcing the city to borrow money to make the payouts amid an ever-tightening budget, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. That amount jumps to at least $21.4 million when interest paid...

Americans continue to warm to legalizing marijuana, with 64 percent saying its use should be made legal, the Gallup survey reports. This is the highest level of public support Gallup has found for the proposal in nearly a half-century of measurement.
The latest figure, based on...

A property case even more important than Kelo v. City of New London (2005) began to wend its way toward the Supreme Court a few weeks ago. The new case is Starr International Company, Inc. v. United States, and unless the Supreme Court repudiates the...